The Cavendish was adopted at the last minute by the big banana companies - Chiquita and Dole - because it was resistant to that blight, a fungus known as Panama disease. For the past fifty years, all has been quiet in the banana world. Until now.
They're in trouble. Can biotechnology save the fruit?
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David has been talking through his switch from Windows to Mac for four months now. He switched because Macs have rekindled that passion for technology that’s been missing for years.
Hi David,For me, while I'm pretty sure I wouldn't go back, the switch has been a lot more like moving from America to England, where there are minor inconveniences like learning to drive on the other side of the road and little terminology…
New development could allow advances such as laptop computers that recharge without plugging in, higher-resolution microscopes for observing molecules, and CDs that can store vastly more data.
Michigan Engineering:The University of Michigan College of Engineering is ranked among the top engineering schools in the country. Michigan Engineering boasts one of the largest engineering research budgets of any public university, at more than…
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You've finally decided to move all your email online to Google's web-based service, Gmail. Great! But what about messages still going to your old email address(es)? You don't have to notify all your contacts that your email address has changed'again. Gmail is not only an email host, it's an email client, which can fetch mail from any number of exte
The following post was originally published in Chapter 1 of our new book, Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better. You've finally decided to move all your email online to Google's web-based service,…
A ton of WordPress Theme hacks, ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready in hand when developing WordPress websites.
WordPress has the ability to allow you assign custom fields to a post by adding extra information to the post which give your blog a lot of flexibility. Custom fields have a name and a value. The Key is the name of the custom field and the Value…
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